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Chaucer's Jailer's Daughter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
textWe know that Shakespeare read Chaucer, but we do not know exactly how he read Chaucer. Established models of source studies require solid "proof," but this paper proposes a more liquid conception of influence that permeates a work in unexpected ways.
Snell, Megan Angela
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Star-Cross’d Lovers: Shakespeare and Prokofiev’s pas-de-deux in “Romeo and Juliet” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This article analyses the structure of Prokofiev's ballet score 'Romeo and Juliet' as an intersemiotic translation of Shakespeare's ...
Bennett, Karen
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Le verger dans la peinture et les vers de Maurice Denis – entre parabole, hortus conclusus marial et verger Courtois [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2020
This paper aims to analyze the pictorial and literary versions of the medieval vergier and its main figure, the lady from courtly love, a locus frequently used by Maurice Denis, a postimpressionist painter, in his paintings and texts.
Andreea Apostu
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Mariage, littérature courtoise, et structure du désir au XIIème siècle

open access: yesMedievalista, 2010
The paper revisits the relations between courtly love and social conditions of the Western eleventh and twelfth centuries. It stresses the larger socio-cultural changes that the Church brought about by imposing celibacy on clerics and the principle of ...
Cristina Álvares
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Performing class, performing genre : The squire of low degree as fifteenth-century drag [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Despite the expansion of Judith Butler's theories of performativity which have proliferated since the publication of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity in 1990, few scholars have examined the implications that performativity may have
Heide, Melissa Louise
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Entre la thérapie et le péché : enquêtes parallèles sur l’expression de la joie (Bernart de Ventadorn et le Roman d’Énéas)

open access: yesRevue des Langues Romanes, 2022
At the beginning of vernacular literatures in medieval Europe, courtly love in gallo-roman traditions appears as fixed within a discursive system in which the expression of joy is one of the main vectors. In the Oc and Oïl traditions, however, it appears
Valeria Russo
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The Bride and the Wounds − "columba mea in foraminibus petrae" (Ct. 2.14)

open access: yesInterfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2018
The dove – as a term of endearment from the Song of Songs – constitutes a subtle recurring sign throughout a medieval mystical tradition that links it to Christ's wounds and therefore to human anatomy, as well as to the poetic traditions of courtly love.
Beatrice Trînca
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The Enigma of Sexual Desire, Part 1: A Brief Review of Classical, Historical, Philosophical, and Literary Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Throughout human history and across cultures, sexual desire has been of interest to the general public and, now more recently, to the medical/psychological community. Part 1 of this two part series examines the historical aspects of the concept of sexual
Rowland, David L
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« Éros mélancolique ». La folie d’amour chez les poètes de la fin du XVIe siècle

open access: yesStudia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2022
„Eros melancholijny”. Szaleństwo miłosne w poezji końca XVI wieku Artykuł ukazuje, w jaki sposób poetom końca XVI wieku udaje się, dzięki korzystaniu z rosnącej wiedzy filozoficzno-medycznej, a ...
Véronique Ferrer
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The Moral Dimensions of Sufism and the Iberian Mystical Canon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This study explores the shared spaces and common ground between the moral theosophies of Sufism and Christian mysticism in Spain. This article focuses on how Sufis, Carmelites and other mystical authors expressed spiritual concepts, establishing networks
Conde Solares, Carlos
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